Category: Regular Features

On weekdays I provide essential and informative travel tips, with a different subject each day!

Jonny Blair at Bushmills Distillery, Northern Ireland

Thirsty Thursdays: Touring the World’s Oldest Whiskey Distillery, Bushmills, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️

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“I’ve been a wild rover for many a year and I’ve spent all my money on whiskey and beer” – The Pogues. Northern Ireland is my home country and it has some hidden gems for the thirsty traveller. Not only does it boast Ireland’s Highest Pub (The Ponderosa on the Glenshane Pass) and Ireland’s Oldest Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Touring the World’s Oldest Whiskey Distillery, Bushmills, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️[…]

Backpacking in Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️: Top 12 Sights in Blissful Ballyhalbert

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“It’s all too beautiful” – Small Faces. Despite what the tourist brochures and obvious tourists tell you, Northern Ireland’s charm lies not in Belfast and the Giant’s Causeway!! Nor in the Bushmills Distillery and the Carrick a Rede Rope Bridge! Even though I promoted them to the hilt myself many times and continue to tell Read more about Backpacking in Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️: Top 12 Sights in Blissful Ballyhalbert[…]

My Printed Book Anthology By Jonny Blair🔴✋️☘️

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Here is a full list of My Printed Book Anthology By Jonny Blair (1980 – 2024) Backpacking Centurion Series – A Northern Irishman’s Journey Through 100 Countries My first book series is Backpacking Centurion which covers my journey from country 1 (Northern Ireland) to country 100 (Tunisia), from 1980 until 2015. This series of four Read more about My Printed Book Anthology By Jonny Blair🔴✋️☘️[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: Coffee With A View At Roco Sao Joao dos Angolares, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

Thirsty Thursdays: Coffee With A View At Roca São Joao dos Angolares, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

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“Dreams aren’t what they used to be, some things slide by so carelessly” – Brandon Flowers. Sao Tome And Principe is famous for coffee and chocolate. While backpacking in the capital city, São Tome I visited two chocolate shops, did a chocolate tasting and tried chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream and coffee. It was Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Coffee With A View At Roca São Joao dos Angolares, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹[…]

World Travellers: Desirée from The Long Way Home Travels

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The latest to feature in my ongoing World Travellers series is yet another writer and adventurer! Welcome to Desirée from TheLongWayHomeTravels.com! Who are you? My name is Desirée van Welsum, and I have just published my first two travel books: “The Long Way Home – An American Adventure, parts 1 and 2: The Eastern United States.” Read more about World Travellers: Desirée from The Long Way Home Travels[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: Actually Having Breakfast At Tiffany’s, in Timisoara, Romania 🇷🇴

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“I loved her enough to forget myself” – Truman Capote. So the story goes that I had Breakfast At Tiffany’s, and this ain’t no love story, though weirdly it could and should be. Actually, probably it is. The books will get that; the blogs won’t. There’s too much magical mystery at play here on these Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Actually Having Breakfast At Tiffany’s, in Timisoara, Romania 🇷🇴[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Cooked Chicken, Rice and Salad At Tentadora Restaurant, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

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Despite having taken over 10,000 Food photographs on my travels, I am definitely not a food freak, geek or blogger but I sometimes feel the need to cover some of my meals on Friday’s Featured Food. In São Tome E Principe, I visited Bobo Forro, Trinidade, São Tome (the capital city), Porto Allegre, São Joao Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Cooked Chicken, Rice and Salad At Tentadora Restaurant, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹[…]

How To Get A Cameroon Multiple Entry Tourist Visa Online

How To Get A Cameroon🇨🇲Multiple Entry Tourist Visa Online

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“Round this town, you’ve ceased to be. That’s what you get for sleeping with the enemy” – Noel Gallagher. It was a childhood dream of mine to visit Cameroon. It was a long hard road since Benjamin Massing’s red card of 1990. It was easy for the Indomitable Lions to beat Diego Maradona’s mighty World Read more about How To Get A Cameroon🇨🇲Multiple Entry Tourist Visa Online[…]

Backpacking In Cameroon 🇨🇲: Top 10 Sights In Douala

Backpacking In Cameroon 🇨🇲: Top 10 Sights In Douala

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“He’s the only swinger in town” – UK Commentator on the Roger Milla corner flag celebration (1990) While Douala isn’t Cameroon’s capital city per se, nor is it Roger Milla’s birthtown, it certainly has a capital city vibe. To all intents and purposes, this feels like a capital and indeed it serves at Cameroon’s seaport Read more about Backpacking In Cameroon 🇨🇲: Top 10 Sights In Douala[…]

Friday’s Featured Food: Local Fish, Rice and Vegetable Stew at Papa Figo, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

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After arriving into Sao Tome from Gabon, and getting a stamp on arrival (no visa needed for me at the time), I was backpacking here in São Tome E Principe. My first port of call was my excellent “Writer’s Lair” at Casa De Ferias. I rested here in this lovely abode whilst making onward plans. Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Local Fish, Rice and Vegetable Stew at Papa Figo, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹[…]